The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has ordered Amazon, Flipkart, Indiamart and numerous different e-commerce companies within the nation to take down listings for numerous fast-moving shopper items (FMCG) merchandise from their platforms. In a dynamic injuction handed final week, the Excessive Courtroom stated that the businesses infringing on Reliance’s logos couldn’t use the corporate’s model names or comparable designs that might enable their items to be handed off as merchandise manufactured by Reliance. They’ve additionally been directed to disclose the postal addresses, cellphone quantity, e-mail addresses, checking account particulars and cellphone numbers of the manufacturers that had been promoting the fraudulent items on these platforms.

Delhi Excessive Courtroom Grants Advert-Interim Injunction to Reliance

In an order revealed on July 10 (via Bar and Bench), Justice Saurabh Banerjee ordered Flipkart, Amazon, Indiamart, Meesho, Snapdeal, and different platforms to take down a number of listings of fraudulent merchandise from 21 sellers that infringed on Reliance and Jio’s logos. The sellers have additionally been restrained from manufacturing, promoting, and advertising and marketing these merchandise utilizing the corporate’s names or logos.

The corporate had approached the excessive court docket stating that numerous listings for FMCG items had been discovered on these companies by third events, who had been utilizing Reliance and Jio logos with out authorisation. These merchandise had been being offered by unknown sellers working beneath fictitious names and identities.

The Courtroom referred to photographs of the infringing merchandise submitted by Reliance and the corporate’s logos. It held that the design and presentation utilized by the sellers on these platforms imitated the corporate’s logos and this might confuse prospects, making them affiliate the merchandise with Reliance and Jio. 

Along with taking down the listings for these merchandise, the Courtroom additionally directed these e-commerce platforms to submit particulars of all of the 21 sellers responsible of infringing the corporate’s logos. These embrace their postal and e-mail addresses, cellphone numbers, 

The Delhi Excessive Courtroom will hear the principle swimsuit (Reliance Industries Restricted v Pawan Kumar Gupta and Others) on November 13. In the mean time, the e-commerce platforms had been granted 4 weeks to file their replies with the small print on the fraudulent sellers, and a further two weeks after that to file a rejoinder, if any.